Transparency and Orthodoxy

I get all flustered about Radical Honesty.

US Department of Defense’s public domain archive to be privatized, locked up for ten years

DOD pays a company to digitize its assets, and people come to the wrong conclusion.

Hellekson’s Law: DOD Edition

Dan Risacher of the DOD CIO's office applies Hellekson's Law to the DOD Open Source policy, and I am flattered.

American Heroes

"We're not trying to be jerks at all. If you walked in here with a video camera we'd ask you to stop. If you're speaking too loudly on a cellphone we'd ask you to leave. That should be obvious. With Glass, there should be etiquette around its use, and we feel that in a setting … Continue reading American Heroes →

Happy Thanksgiving, Pope Francis.

The Evangelii Gadium seem particularly relevant this Thanksgiving.

Red Hat Government Symposium 2013 Roundup

There were a bunch of announcements at the Red Hat Government Symposium this week, and I wanted to make sure we had them all in once place.

Thunderbird Font Problem

Thunderbird font preferences only honor ISO-8859-1 encodings, and I lose my mind.

Adventures in municipal websites

The City of Austin asks me to apply for a permit, and I turn into a cranky UX expert.

Create short links with TextExpander and yourls

I want to type ghurl, and have TextExpander grab the URL in my clipboard, and replace it with my link-shortening service, running yourls. Grab your "secret signature token" from the Tools page in yourls. Create a shell script, short-url.sh in your ~/bin directory (or wherever). Yes, we could just drop this script into TextExpander, but … Continue reading Create short links with TextExpander and yourls →

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Moustache

Mr. Money Moustache is a kind of hipster Suze Orman. He's also a censorious, unforgiving scold.